35mm film in medium format camera

[Attila]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NLxN-RtXc4

Sound looks silly to me, but may one of you love to play .

[Lloydy]

There's some interesting results in these Flickr groups, and a lot of crap.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sprocketholerevolution/pool/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sprocketwhores/

I really like this one -


I♥Taormina by iltubo, on Flickr
This guy is at least taking good pictures and using the technique to achieve something the look he's after, unlike most of the overexposed yellow lomo style crap.

I've got some Poundshop film and a couple of 127 cameras, I might just have a go.

[Farside]

You can use 35mm film in 120 backing paper, as he shows, but I wouldn't bother with the redscale backwards configuration, just use it normally.
Some 120 cameras with no red window, will allow the use of a 35mm cassette directly, like the Pentacon Six. This is a handy thing to know if you really want to use it and have no 120 film handy

[Orio]

Also, red windows can be taped black

[Attila]

A bit like LOMO to me

[visualopsins]

35mm film in 120/220 camera gives panorama effect...

[martinsmith99]

The thing I like is seeing the sprocket holes, but I dare say this could easily be added to a digital image.

[rbelyell]

2 words: hasselblad xpan. 'nuff said.
tony

[iangreenhalgh1]

Xpan is too expensive for most people.

You can indeed use 35mm in 120 backing, but this guy does it wrong, imho. With a 120 roll, there is 460mm of paper leader before the film, so he should be taping that 35mm not at the beginning but about 400mm from the start of the paper. The film portion extends for about 820mm then there is another 400-500mm of paper tail after the film.

I can up with a different way of using 35mm in a 120 cam. I modified a Mamiya RB67 back by fitting the spool adapters from a Yashica TLR 35mm adapter kit. I don't have to do any respooling, just use the standard 35mm cassette and the Mamiya back doesn't use red windows. This gives me 35x70 images and because I have plenty of unperf 35mm, you can use all of the 35x70 area which gives a nice 2:1 aspect ratio.

[Bob van Sikorski]

two things:

1) for flexarets, there is official adapter for 135, so if you have i think F IV, V, VI, VII, Standard, you can use 35mm with no problems
2) why stick 35mm to 120 roll if you want to redscale effect? why not just buy 120mm C41 film andunder coplete dark switch the sides of film, tape it and youre done?

maybe iam just stupid, but i dont see any benefits of what the guy on video is doing (with his MANY fingerprints)

[Attila]

You are not alone who found this is useless...

[iangreenhalgh1]

I agree too, pretty useless. I don't see the point in this redscale thing anyway, you could just use a filter to get the same effect. All you're getting is a couple of stops less light to the emulsion and a heavy orange cast. You could just stick a piece of developed but unexposed film over your lens as a filter.

[Bob van Sikorski]

exactly. i was hoping, that someone else point this obvious thing out. thank you.